You’d almost think you lived in America where there is no real broadband outside cities ;( (I do live in a city, mainly for that reason)
@peciwov And I do have fully symmetrical, which was a wonder for me..having never had it till fiber.
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We have already discussed this in another topic here in the forum. I live in a small town in Germany. On the other side of the street we have fiberglass with 1000mb/s. Welcome to Neuland, like our former Chancelor used to say 
When I first got internet in this apartment 3 1/2 years ago, there were 5 plans available: 100 Mbps, 300 Mbps, 600 Mbps, 900 Mbps, and Gigabit. I knew 100 and 300 wouldn’t be enough for what I wanted (needed). And while 600 might very well have worked just fine, the difference in price between 600 and 900 was only $10(US) at the time. And I got the 900 sale price locked in for as long as I stay with Infinity/Comcast.
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Yeah I knew that…just being a sarcastic wit (at my own country).
As to the other side of the street, can’t you run a cable across the street under the storm drains? lol
Uncle, that’s been one of the biggest thing about most providers here, the yearly price increases, while new subscribers get mega-deals. It just seems like noone wants to RETAIN customers.
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I’ve been in my apartment for 25 years now. Until 4 years ago I still had 16MB/s
The road was newly concreted. So everything is up to date. Quiet roadway, cycle path and everything. Unfortunately, they forgot the fiberglass cable on my side 
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Until about three years ago, I had 3Mb/s. It felt like the dark ages 
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Yeah, someone explained to me why my upload speed seems “capped” at around 35-40 Mbps, but I don’t remember that explanation. Having said that, I back up files to the cloud (Mega), and it always seems instantaneous. Even uploading my music to Soundcloud or Bandcamp takes only a few seconds.
Yeah, these days most apps buffer things to some extent…plus most of our data is actually very small files (compared to how they seemed back in the 1200 baud days) 
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Same thing here. However…
Everyone that has any idea of how things work here, just asks for termination close to contract expiry (eg 25 days before contract expires), so the companies magically remember they can actually do a better offer and you get a more “normal” price.
If you REALLY have A LOT of free time, you can even just straight up apply to a competitor, and the current ISP rings you to do the best offers they can (actually) do. But that can be messy because even though there’s laws to provide consumers with at least 14 days of leeway to do exactly that, the ISPs find roundabouts to the law and you actually have like half a workday, so you have to be ON IT to do that.
I find I don’t have the patience for this annually, and like @unclespellbinder I have a no-price increase reseller ISP reselling AT&T services.
I used to dread either negotiating, or just moving yearly or every two years.
I’m not sure what the official explanation is, but I always put it down to the difference between consumer and commercial use.
- Consumers for the most part are primarily download orientated, pulling from services.
- Commercial (web services) are upload and download dependant, providing services to clients.
The speed difference between the two, particularly around upload, allows ISP’s to provide and price products accordingly.
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Hehehe, and I still remember when I thought I was hot shyt when I got my new puter with 33.3 baud modem network thingy 
My boss at the time only had a 14.4 buud modem, and when I told him what I had it really pissed him off He fired me a few days later…
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Not exactly. Wired connections will sometimes give the speed that is advertised. WiFi will not be able to. The values that we see on WiFi routers are theoretical and ideal max speed. They are never achievable in real life. In real life the actual value will be 75-85% of the advertised speed. This is due to walls, other devices on the network and other radio signals too.